Posted by Jon Hagen on April 29, 2008 at 16:50:12 from (12.175.230.37):
In Reply to: Re: Running E85 posted by Leland on April 29, 2008 at 16:14:28:
My 2000 Dakota pickup with 4.7 V8 has high enough compression that the knock sensor has to retard the timing so It will run on 87 octane Regular gas, because of this it only loses 10% or 2 mpg when running on E85. Not all engines react the same to E85, an engine that can tune itself to use the higher octane of E85 will not see as much mpg drop as a low compression engine that is perfectly happy on 87 octane regular.
Also, the 20% of the corn crop that goes into ethanol has little effect on food prices.
The real culprit in higher food prices is the fact that the 200% price increase in diesel fuel and gasoline used to grow,process and truck the food to you has everything to do with increased food prices. Gasoline prices would be even higher if Ethanol did not replace a percentage of the gasoline avalible.
It does NOT take more energy to produce ethanol than it contains, All of the latest generation of ethanol plants built in the last 4 years are showing on average a 30% net energy gain over inputs.
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